It has been a while since I have shared my two cents here about anything. However, since the elections have come and pass, I figured now is as good time as any to share them with you. Let me start with the waste of land. I will use the example that is just up the road from me here in Glendale, the redesign of the parks on both ends of Thunderbird Conservation Park. I am not sure of the total amount of acreage that has been cut up and destroyed for parking lots, but it is a lot. People use the mountain primarily for hiking, and probably not too many people really care if they park their vehicle right at the starting point of their hike or if they must walk a short distance to begin it. I was a big fan of the late James Van Der Beek, and I once watched a video he posted stating that he got mad at another driver for cutting him off and stealing his parking spot that was close to the building he would be walking into a few minutes later. Then he stopped and asked himself why he was mad if he had to walk a little further when he was going to the gym to do some cardio anyway. Kind of doesn’t make much sense to me, so whoever came up with the idea to waste land, water, and taxpayer money for these projects is, for lack of a better word, idiots. One last quick point on this topic. When I was a military SERE instructor (outdoor survival) in southern California many years ago, the military attempted to purchase several hundred acres of land across the street from our existing property to conduct land navigation on a new piece of land. However, that didn’t happen because there was an environmental group was more concerned about a certain butterfly and toad whose habitats would be destroyed than training military servicemembers lifesaving skills, but I digress.
On to wasting water. I am speaking on this only from personal experience from working here in the Phoenix area. When the TSMC plant was being built in north Phoenix, I was a security guard at the site. Every day for months I witnessed dozens of 20,000-gallon water tucks pour water on the ground. Whether it was to soften the ground up so bulldozers could cut through the ground easier or to keep the fungus that caused Valley Fever from spreading, either way hundreds of thousands of water was wasted every day. I can only assume that with all the construction projects going around the valley and throughout the state and hundreds of thousands or millions of gallons are wasted daily, it sure doesn’t seem like Arizona has a water shortage. (sorry for the sarcasm).
Does anyone remember when the Arizona legislature passed House Concurrent Memorial 2004 in 2021. This is better known as the idea Jim Lamon used in his campaign for U.S. Senate in 2022 that would build 3 pipelines from the Mississippi River to transports millions of gallons of flood water from the river to the Upper Colorado Basin. Whether it was Lamon’s idea or not, has anyone running for any congressional seat since then ran on a better idea to bring water to Arizona? I don’t think so. Every other politician from seven states is trying to get more water from the Colorado River, Lake Meade, and Lake Powell.
I am not sure if those intelligent politicians realize that between 2000 and 2021, those two lakes has lost a combined 18.7 million acre-feet of water and the Colorado River water storage has declined 24% since the Colorado River Compact of 1922 was signed into law. What that means is those seven states are fighting for a water source that can’t possibly keep up with its demand and with California having almost double the amount of population of all the other 6 states combined, guess who is likely to get a larger piece of the water pie than the rest. But sure, let’s keep cutting our land and waste water for dumb projects like parking lots in an area that people use to park their cars to go hiking.
On to wasting America’s future. Does anyone believe that Katie “Veto” Hobbs received more votes that Congressman Biggs? Now I will not believe this election was “stolen” like many people unless verifiable evidence proves it, and I am not calling election conspiracy theorist’s actual verifiable evidence. Congressman Biggs is not President Trump, neither is Kimberly Yee, Elijah Norton, Jay Feely, and every other Republican candidate (new or incumbent) who lost their elections. Be mad at a person or several, not an entire party. I served as the head of security at President Trump’s 2020 national campaign headquarters and even I sometimes feel ashamed of voting for him in 2024 because I think that most of his second term has been a clown show. I get it, we are mad at the Republicans and President Trump. We are mad about the Iran War, gas prices, affordability, etc. What if Trump gets impeached and thrown out, then what if Vance gets impeached and Hakeem Jeffries is the new president? What if the democrats take the White House in 2028 by normal means? If you are a Republican that voted for a democrat in this past election, how will you feel then when our country finally falls into third world status. I served in the military for 20 years, been to more than 2 dozen countries worldwide, including several third world countries and I can promise you, that is something that none of us want. Do you really believe that democrats care about anything but impeaching Trump over the next 2 years? Do you really believe that they will work on getting gas and grocery prices lower, and when they can’t blame Trump. They, with never Trumper Massie have already tried impeaching Hegseth, so who do you think is next? I will compare those “so-called” Republicans of Arizona who voted democrat to someone who is mad for something their boss did at work one day, quite their job, and now they are living on the street. That is a real possibility. Grow up people. How many politicians, President or not, have promised hundreds of things and not keep their word? If you think you can do better, get off the couch and run for office and try.
This is my opinion, but as I like to say, opinions are like people’s breath, some stink worse than others. If I may steal a line from the great Paul Harvey, “Good Day”.
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